By Steven Aitchison
In my 35 years as a psychotherapist, I have been struck by the inability many people have to distinguish between fact and fiction. People get depressed, they get negative, and they get anxious for generally one main reason – they treat interpretations like facts! They never learned to do otherwise – this is not taught in school along with algebra and chemistry. People often cannot tell the difference between reality and the stories they tell themselves. My work as a therapist is to help people identify what is their story or their own personal myth and what is objective reality.
The following are some examples of fiction that people regard as true:
“Things always go wrong.”... More...
